The key battleground state of North Carolina is still within President Barack Obama's grasp, despite Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue's surprise decision to drop her re-election campaign.
Obama has been running commercials in the state for months, and the Democrats have staked so much on repeating...
Nearly four years ago when President Obama accepted the Democratic nomination beneath a clear sky in Denver, a new chapter opened in American history. Steve Kerrigan "Democratic National Convention Committee CEO" announce today the first plans to make history once again and break with conventions...
NC lawmakers return for redistricting patch-up
The Associated Press
The North Carolina Legislature is back in town to work to fix some mistakes in laws they passed when they drew up new boundaries for themselves and the state's congressional delegation.
The House and Senate gaveled in their chambers...
RALEIGH, N.C. AP — The Occupy Wall Street movement has inspired like-minded demonstrators across North Carolina to try maintaining encampments around the clock — a goal that has been racking up around-the-clock costs for police at camps in the state's two largest cities.
The cost...
(Reuters) – U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles temporarily halted that part of the state's new abortion law, set to take effect on Wednesday. The judge ruled that those challenging the law had shown they were likely to prove that the provision violated their constitutional rights.
The provision...
BEAUFORT, N.C. (AP) — Researchers have raised a 2,000-pound cannon from the wreck of the pirate Blackbeard's ship, which has been on the ocean floor off the North Carolina coast for nearly 300 years.
The Queen Anne's Revenge Project brought the massive gun ashore Wednesday. Onlookers cheered...